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Voortrekker Road

Stretching 17 kilometres, alongside the railway line from Salt River to Bellville, Voortrekker Road trails the vestiges of a society in flux. Named after the single most important component in the folk memory of Afrikaner Nationalism, and once a shopping hub for white South Africans, today the road harbours a diverse economy and provides a haven for foreign nationals from all over Africa and the Middle East. Working class black South Africans, white South Africans and immigrants from numerous countries transact in business contracts on a daily basis. This project is a study on the complexities at play in Voortrekker Road as a site of fractured negotiation within South Africa as a transitional society.